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Readers Respond: What Symptoms Did You Have When Diagnosed with Cervical Cancer?

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Updated February 28, 2011

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maybe too late

in 2004 i had a severe pap and needed a biopsy. out of fear, i didn't. now, 5 years later, i have pain worse than before, discomfort with sex and after sex. my periods are heavier and longer than before. the symptoms are kinda like PMS X's 100. if you think there's something wrong....GET CHECKED!!!!!! don't wait....it won't go away, it will only get worse.
—Guest CMP

cervical cancer

i usually had normal menstruation but since last year september ive had rather heavy and longer piriods than normally then i went to the clinic and the nurse without checking if im okay just said its normal for piriods to change so im not sure weather im healthy or not
—Guest monica

im confused if its cervical cancer

im only 30 years old i have slight pain after sex on my left side and slight discharge after that. i am ok if i dont have sex , i dont feel a thing . i had my paps smear test in december 2007. im really scared
—Guest dolly

My symptoms of Cervical Cancer

I went to the E.R.not once but twice with heavy bleeding and big clots and was told that my red cells counts were 140 with is very good but than I would have sex and I would bleed after and some days I was very tired to the point of not being able to do one more thing,so I went to the Gynecologist who took a PaP test and was sent to the Cancer Care Gynecologist . That's when I heard you have Ceverical Cancer and it's at stage 2 and you should recover from this but I just can't believe it? At least I live in country that has a national health plan and I don't have to worry about would I be able to afford treatment?
—Guest A.D

Symptoms

I'm 32 yrs old, and i always have excess discharged for the past 3 yrs, sometimes i feel that i got period since the discharge is quite watery at times and it is slightlt pink and sometimes pale yellow, it even smells sometimes, pls help...do i have the chance of having cervical cancer, i dont feel any pain nor any other symptoms..i'm so afraid to see the Doc, is it cureably if it happen to be a cancer....Cathy
—Nostalgic

Off to the Doctor

Just about a month and a half ago, after having sex I ended up in bed with a fever for 2 days. Thought nothing about it. Then the next time I had sex I ended up with a discharge and it has continued for about 3 weeks. So this weekend after sex I am now bleeding. I am curious has anyone else had a fever that they can recall. To the Doctors tomorrow.
—Guest Liz

not sure what is wrong

i am 31 i havehad female problemsforawhile.i have pain afte sex .I also bleed fr 3 or 4 days after. i have been feeling very weak. i sleep alot.i get these pains in my vagina that felslike someone stabbing me. i have reallybad headaches.ihadabad experience with a doctor and havent had a pap in 4 years i am so afraid to go. i am a mother of 4 kidsswhat do i do.
—shealys

strange symptom

my sister thought she had a uti because she had pain during urination and it turned out she had precancerous cells only 18 yrs old..
—Guest amanda

what symptoms did you have when diagnose

I had irregualr bleeding, I dont menustrate so when i started I was a little confused to why I also blead when I had intercourse and for a couple days after. i had a thick vagianl disharge and crmaps that fealt like period cramps. I also had sharp vaginal and rectal pains. And Started feeling very tierd it reminded me of when I was pregnant.
—Guest Stacey

Symptoms

I know somebody who got some unusual bleeding, which prompted her to get a checkup. But by then the cancer was already advanced. She had no other symptoms, and she felt totally healthy at the time of being diagnosed. The tragedy is that it's the most preventable cancer, if only she'd had a pap every couple of years.
—Guest Koby

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